[Bug 962369] Re: Cannot set Device name (hostname) under Details section in System Settings on 12.04

2012-04-29 Thread John Baptist
As I recall, this is possible when booting from a live CD (or USB). Why is it possible when booting live but not otherwise? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu.

[Bug 656363] Re: missing 2.32 feature: add annotations

2012-04-27 Thread John Baptist
This is broken in Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656363 Title: missing 2.32 feature: add annotations To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 36227] Re: gedit doesn't handle apostrophes correctly when spell-checking

2012-04-14 Thread John Baptist
I confirm this is still a problem in Precise Beta 2. If this can't be fixed, then the auto-spell-check feature should probably be removed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report.

[Bug 603415] Re: Accessibility keybindings don't work

2011-10-12 Thread John Baptist
It's true that the toggle changes, but on my system the magnifier does not appear or in fact magnify. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603415 Title:

[Bug 603415] Re: Accessibility keybindings don't work

2011-10-12 Thread John Baptist
There was a program named /usr/bin/magnifier in the gnome-mag package which allegedly provided magnification under GNOME2, but it wasn't started by Accessibility services correctly, and even if started manually, it still didn't work. In Oneiric, that package exists but is not installed by default

[Bug 603415] Re: Accessibility keybindings don't work

2011-10-12 Thread John Baptist
While the Compiz Zoom plugin might be appropriate for advanced users, modulo the significant caveats you mentioned, it requires manually configuring Compiz with ccsm, which is not installed by default, and which is beyond the capability of most users. It is therefore not an appropriately general

[Bug 603415] Re: Accessibility keybindings don't work

2011-10-11 Thread John Baptist
Yes, it is. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603415 Title: Accessibility keybindings don't work To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 603415] Re: Accessibility keybindings don't work

2011-10-11 Thread John Baptist
I'm not convinced that this is a GNOME bug. First of all, it doesn't appear in other distributions (at least not in Fedora). Second, given the fairly radical changes that Ubuntu has made to the user interface in recent versions (e.g. Unity), I wouldn't be surprised if loss of Accessibility

[Bug 290506] Re: cheese malfunctioning with UVCVIDEO webcams (was cheese doesn't show v4l2 video output and disables output on gstreamer-based apps ran afterwards)

2011-04-02 Thread John Baptist
This is still a problem in up-to-date Lucid. Cheese will not record video with my UNCVIDEO webcam. Is there a version of Ubuntu where this works? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gstreamer0.10 in Ubuntu.

[Bug 574046] Re: shares-admin doesn't see NFS and SMB installed (no support for Upstart jobs)

2010-08-16 Thread John Baptist
Wouldn't it be easier just to add a check-box to the dialog box in nautilus-share that says Allow sharing when user is logged off.? It seems that a whole separate GUI is redundant. -- shares-admin doesn't see NFS and SMB installed (no support for Upstart jobs)

[Bug 574046] Re: shares-admin doesn't see NFS and SMB installed (no support for Upstart jobs)

2010-07-30 Thread John Baptist
Daan: is there a reason you didn't want to use nautilus-share? -- shares-admin doesn't see NFS and SMB installed (no support for Upstart jobs) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574046 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 222290] Re: users-admin won't let you change anything about a user with invalid username

2010-07-30 Thread John Baptist
Under Lucid, I created a user named test.test with useradd and can confirm that that user was then editable with users-admin, so I guess this bug can be closed. Some interesting things discovered in my investigation completely tangential to this bug, but perhaps warranting a bug report of their

[Bug 610847] [NEW] gnome-screenshot allows multiple instances

2010-07-28 Thread John Baptist
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-utils Multiple instances of gnome-screenshot can be active at a time. This is problematic if the user accidentally holds down the PrintScr key for a moment, as the resulting numerous instances of the program seriously degrade system performance and

[Bug 530372] Re: cannot change track information - Unable to create tag-writing elements

2010-07-28 Thread John Baptist
I'll note that in my experience, this problem is not limited to WMA files: it happens in MP3 files, as well. So I'm not sure what the common element is. Would it be helpful to attach an MP3 that causes this error? It seems that the upstream bug is still not confirmed. -- cannot change track

[Bug 587601] Re: No Logon screen after 'switching user', only an Ubuntu logo and the computers name

2010-07-27 Thread John Baptist
I used to have this issue, but I believe it was fixed in lucid-updates. Sorry, I don't recall the exact bug. The problem, as I recall, was that the fade-out from a logout set the screen gamma to zero, and this was not restored. Do you still have this problem with a fully-updated lucid? -- No

[Bug 501054] Re: gcalctool 5.29 hides switch for display format in its settings window

2010-03-01 Thread John Baptist
Hello Robert, I tried your gcalctool from the PPA and I can confirm that the shortcut keys work. This is definitely a step in the right direction. If the main problem with improving gcalctool is a lack of time or manpower, I can help you. I will be happy to work on the code myself, if it would

[Bug 324700] Re: gnome-volume-control missing ability to customize session sound effects theme

2010-03-01 Thread John Baptist
Hi. Is someone working on this bug? If not, is there someone here who is in a position to accept a patch? -- gnome-volume-control missing ability to customize session sound effects theme https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324700 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 501054] Re: gcalctool 5.29 hides switch for display format in its settings window

2010-02-28 Thread John Baptist
Hi Robert, Thanks for your response. Well, it's not March yet, so I obviously haven't seen version 5.29.92, but even with the mentioned changes, I remain unsure. For example, even with the addition of the keyboard shortcuts, I need to remember to take an extra step when entering non-decimal

[Bug 501054] Re: gcalctool 5.29 hides switch for display format in its settings window

2010-02-26 Thread John Baptist
I agree. This is a real deal-breaker for me. The only thing that I use the calculator for is to convert between hex/dec/bin and that is now very difficult. As far as I can tell, there is no way to set the default input base to be something other than decimal. As a result, every time I enter a hex

[Bug 400830] Re: shared folder still shared even if recreated after deletion

2009-11-15 Thread John Baptist
Another thought: Could this problem be solved with extended attributes? Nautilus-share could add an extended attribute to each shared folder, which would contain a unique identifier, which would map into its list of known shared folders? This, it seems, would be a more reliable solution than

[Bug 468255] Re: renaming a shared folder from within nautilus causes inconsistent sharing information

2009-11-02 Thread John Baptist
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 400830 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400830 This is not a duplicate. 400830 has to do with creating a new folder of the same name, which WILL also be shared (although it shouldn't be). This bug has to do with renaming an existing folder, which WILL NOT

[Bug 400830] Re: shared folder still shared even if recreated after deletion

2009-11-01 Thread John Baptist
It seems to me that this bug is likely a security problem, as the user could inadvertently share information that was supposed to be private. Furthermore, it is clearly unexpected, inconsistent behavior that is confusing and partially negates the benefit of having a sharing GUI at all. So, I

[Bug 433701] Re: services-admin should be disabled

2009-10-04 Thread John Baptist
Has anyone seen the services GUI used by Fedora? It's pretty nice, much better than services-admin. I don't know if it works with upstart, but if so, maybe we could just use that. (It is open source, after all.) What always bothered me about services-admin is that it wasn't comprehensive. It was

[Bug 433701] Re: services-admin should be disabled

2009-10-04 Thread John Baptist
@Milan: Yes, we should provide descriptions for those services we know, and allow operations on all services, even those we don't know. However, I think the list of known services should not be hard-coded; rather, there should be a way for services to register themselves with service manager and

[Bug 40652] Re: Dictionary applet no longer makes suggestions for misspelt words

2009-09-29 Thread John Baptist
If this was fixed, it was also un-fixed. As of today, an up-to-date Jaunty does not contain a dictionary that makes suggestions. Entering a mis-spelled word results in an error, but no suggestion, while entering a correctly-spelling word results in redundant suggestions varying only in case. I've

[Bug 40652] Re: Dictionary applet no longer makes suggestions for misspelt words

2009-09-29 Thread John Baptist
And with a misspelling. ** Attachment added: Screenshot-aknowledgement - Dictionary.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32669863/Screenshot-aknowledgement%20-%20Dictionary.png -- Dictionary applet no longer makes suggestions for misspelt words https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40652 You

[Bug 27938] Re: users-admin doesn't create home folder for new user

2009-09-10 Thread John Baptist
Hi. I have this problem under up-to-date Jaunty. When running users- admin, either from the menu or from the command-line, if I create a new user, it adds it to the list. But, then, if I close the users-admin window and re-open it, the new user isn't there. Looking in /etc/passwd, there is no new

[Bug 27938] Re: users-admin doesn't create home folder for new user

2009-09-10 Thread John Baptist
By the way, after the failed attempted creation via users-admin, even though the new user doesn't appear in the list in the main users-admin window, I can't create another user with the same name: users-admin complains that the user already exists. -- users-admin doesn't create home folder for

[Bug 400830] Re: shared folder still shared even if recreated after deletion

2009-07-20 Thread John Baptist
I'm not sure you can solve this by extending the Nautilus plugin interface. For example, what if the file is deleted by another tool (e.g. rm)? Then Nautilus would have no idea about it, nevertheless nautilus-share should still consider the file un-shared. Here's my idea (please keep in mind that

[Bug 395878] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in IA__g_str_hash()

2009-07-17 Thread John Baptist
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 395710 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395710 Hi. I don't think this is a duplicate of bug 395710. However, it may be a duplicate of bug 35. My Nautilus crashes when I open an ssh or smb path in it. Also, gedit can't save to ssh or smb folders